Re: Fonts providing emojis?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271828@yahoo.com> wrote:

What Debian font packages provide emojis?

絵文字？

At least, thats what i think they are. Ive seen messages with little rectangular boxes with "01f 44d" and "01f 1e7" in them, and some googling suggests these are thumbs-up signs and things like that. How doe i get these to display?

If you are talking about the Japanese e-moji, well, frankly, I've been tending to ignore them as substitute for the constructed emoticons like 8-*.

(Also how do i look these up? Literally. I google and get a bunch of random things, without very much work. If I know its some kind of font, what do i type? "01f 1e7 codepoint" or "01f 1e7 unicode" don't work.)

You might want to ask on the Japanese user list. If my brain kicks into gear, I may recall where they are defined and who has charge of them, beyond that they are mostly proprietary extensions of the JIS character space. It does seem like I recently read that some of them have been brought into the unicode set, so you might want to nose around in unicode.org's pages.

But, of course, not all those rectangular character substitutions are going to be e-moji. In fact, hardly any of them are, statistically speaking.

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